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🐟 A small fish 🍣 Edible fish meat
silver salmon

silver salmon

3.1
Pink fatty meat from a small salmon often sold and eaten as food
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪlvər ˈsælmən/
  • US
translation icon : salmón plateado
  • The chef prepared a delicious meal featuring silver salmon with lemon and herbs.

Examples

  • You can find fresh silver salmon in local fish markets along the Pacific coast.

  • I love eating silver salmon for dinner.

  • Anglers are often excited to catch silver salmon during the fall spawning season.

  • Have you ever tried silver salmon sushi?

  • The chef prepared grilled silver salmon with lemon and herbs for the special dinner.

  • In the market, I found fresh silver salmon that looked delicious and was perfect for baking.

  • Many fishermen target silver salmon during the summer months for its rich flavor and tender texture.

Synonyms

coho salmon
vssilver salmon
  • US
1 3.0

A small salmon from the Pacific Ocean often eaten for its tender flesh

focuses only on the flesh rather than the whole fish
coho
vssilver salmon
  • US
8.0

The pink, fatty flesh of a small salmon that people eat as food

is the same meat but names the exact species in the description
cohoe
vssilver salmon
  • US
9.9

The fatty pink flesh of a small salmon eaten as food

is the same flesh but gives a fuller species reference in the definition

How Fatty

silver salmon
  • US
3.1

Surface Forms

silver salmon singular
silver salmons plural

Morphology

silver + salmon

The noun phrase is compositionally built from 'silver' (a silvery colour/appearance) + 'salmon' (the fish/meat), so a learner can infer it denotes a type or flesh of salmon that is silvery in appearance. This adjective+noun naming pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand the intended meaning.

Etymology

Silver salmon as a food name comes from the same idea: sellers and cooks used the fish's bright silver skin to name its pink, fatty flesh, so markets and recipes call that meat silver salmon. That's why the name now means 'the pink, fatty flesh of that salmon used as food'.